New Delhi: India and the UK on Wednesday operationalised a free trade agreement under which a host of domestic goods will enter the British market at zero duty. A social security agreement has also been operationalised from July 15. “With the coming into force of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and the Agreement on…
New Delhi: The comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) that was signed between India and the UK on July 25, 2025, after several rounds of negotiations, will come into force from July 15, 2026. This will be the sixth free trade agreement to be implemented by the Narendra Modi government. Earlier, India implemented such pacts…
Mumbai: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticised the Maharashtra government for the delay in appointing a maintenance agency for a Rs 82.78‑crore helicopter bought for anti‑Naxalite operations, leaving it grounded for 17 months and causing an avoidable expense of Rs 2.07 crore. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report for 2024-25 exposed failures…
Mumbai: Lieutenant General Sanjay Kulkarni (retd), who led an Indian Army team to secure the top of the icy heights of the Siachen Glacier way back in 1984, expressed surprise at the continuation of challenges in what has become the world’s highest battlefield. “I had never thought in my life that this operation would go…
Auckland: India and New Zealand on Saturday elevated their ties to a strategic partnership and set a five-year target to double their annual bilateral trade in goods and services to Rs 35,000 crore by 2030 following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Kiwi counterpart Christopher Luxon. The meeting yielded 18 concrete outcomes, including…
“The greatest enemy of a good investment plan is often the investor himself.” That observation has become a staple of financial advisory circles, and much of the evidence behind it comes from one of the world’s most respected investor behaviour studies. For over three decades, DALBAR Inc., a Boston-based financial services market research firm, has…
Gandhinagar: Hydrogen is the future of the transportation industry, and the government is conducting trials on 10 routes across the country on its use as fuel, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said. The trials are underway on Greater Noida-Delhi-Agra, Bhubaneshwar-Konark-Puri, Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat, Sahibabad-Faridabad-Delhi, Pune-Mumbai, Jamshedpur-Kalinga Nagar, Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi, Kochi-Edappally, Jamnagar-Ahmedabad, and NH-16 Visakhapatnam-Bayyavaram routes, the minister said….
Mumbai: India Inc’s revenues are expected to grow at a two-year high of up to 11.5 per cent in the June quarter, despite the prevailing tensions in West Asia, which have had a wide-ranging impact, starting with supply chain disruptions and stoking domestic inflation, a report said on Thursday. Corporate India will be able to…
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday signed an MoU with solar energy solutions provider Vikram Solar to set up a Battery Energy Storage Systems manufacturing plant at an investment of Rs 15,037 crore at SIPCOT Industrial Park in Gangaikondan, Tirunelveli district. The mega project will create direct and indirect employment opportunities to 2,670 people,…
New Delhi: Asian Development Bank on Thursday lowered India’s GDP growth projection to 6.6 per cent as against 6.9 per cent estimated earlier for the current fiscal on concerns of higher energy prices fuelled by the Middle East crisis. Despite the growth moderation, India still continues to be the fastest-growing major economy in the world….
